Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Occasionally people would come to me. I was sitting with a woman one day and she was telling me her story and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Let's say you have to catch a plane, and you are packing your suitcase and moving fast. Most people would call that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Germany is a nation that created an enormous amount of suffering on the planet. The German people also themselves have suffered, because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Transformational entertainment is a story that both entertains and uplifts you, not simply because you are inspired, but because it reveals the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For some people, it's the beginning of an awakening when they hear or read, "You have a voice in your head that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Your mind is an instrument, a tool. It is there to be used for a specific task, and when the task is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
In either case, ugly or beautiful, people derive a significant part of their identity, be it negative or positive, from their body.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Before I wrote The Power of Now, I had a vision that I had already written the book and that it was… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People are amazed to realize they can enjoy the moment rather than be stressed by it when hurrying to an appointment. You… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you are content with being nobody in particular, content not to stand out, you align yourself with the power of the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher;… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people thought I was crazy to have let go of all the worldly things I had "achieved." They didn't understand that… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People always form images of who others are, and they can be inflated images. People may not realize that the enormous energy… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When I'm with people, I'm a spiritual teacher. That's the function, but it's not my identity. The moment I'm alone, my deepest… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
For most people on the planet, consciousness can be equated with thought. They haven't experienced what it means to be conscious without… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of the most… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“A powerful spiritual practice is consciously to allow the diminishment of ego when it happens without attempting to restore it. I recommend that you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“War is a mind-set, and all action that comes out of such a mind-set will either strengthen the enemy, the perceived evil, or, if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is very hard to tell when I started to be a spiritual teacher. There was a time when occasionally somebody would come and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
